Athlon Silver 3050U vs Core 2 Duo E6300

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Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo E6300 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1962
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiencyno data11.91
Architecture codenameConroe (2006−2007)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release dateJuly 2006 (18 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo E6300 and Athlon Silver 3050U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed1.86 GHz2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed1.87 GHz3.2 GHz
Bus rate1066 MHzno data
Multiplierno data23
L1 cache64 KB192 KB
L2 cache2 MB1 MB
L3 cache0 KB4 MB
Chip lithography65 nm14 nm
Die size143 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature61 °C95 °C
Number of transistors291 million4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
VID voltage range0.85V-1.5Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo E6300 and Athlon Silver 3050U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1no data
SocketLGA775,PLGA775FP5
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo E6300 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI-+
FMA-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data
Precision Boost 2no data+

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo E6300 and Athlon Silver 3050U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo E6300 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-x+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo E6300 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data32 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core 2 Duo E6300 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Core 2 Duo E6300 634
Athlon Silver 3050U 2993
+372%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Core 2 Duo E6300 186
Athlon Silver 3050U 777
+318%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Core 2 Duo E6300 304
Athlon Silver 3050U 1350
+344%

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 65 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050U has a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 333.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Core 2 Duo E6300 and Athlon Silver 3050U. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Core 2 Duo E6300 is a desktop processor while Athlon Silver 3050U is a notebook one.


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